The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 10, 2022

BlackRock was the focus of the study because, with over $9 trillion in assets under management, they are the largest asset manager in the world, with stakes in over 3,000 firms. They started their “Dear CEO” letters in 2012 and have prompted other investment firms to follow suit.

Letter 109

Letter Influence CEO Asset Management 109

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

In Japan several factors combine to help insulate managers from outside influence, including cross-holdings where the company owns shares in a partner firm, docile boards mostly composed of company executives, and a court system historically biased against investment funds.

ROE 8

ROE Construction Hedge Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. Say-on-pay is part of a big shift in recent years toward giving professional money managers more tools to affect the governance of (and in some cases discipline the managers of) corporations. What shareholders have been saying, in overwhelming numbers, is yes! That''s understandable.

Hedge 8

Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In In November 2012, I wrote an article for HBR about the emergence of returning professional internship programs across a wide range of sectors: for-profit, non-profit, military and academic institutions.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cooper Gordon Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

By March 2012 unemployment was 24.1 Ireland has managed to avoid such social unrest for a variety of reasons, but indicators of social disruption like suicide, depression, and crime have all increased markedly as overall unemployment reached 14.5 percent and youth unemployment reached 29 percent in early 2012.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Lazear went on to describe how economists, with the University of Chicago's Gary Becker leading the way , had been running roughshod over the other social sciences — using economic tools to study crime, the family, accounting, corporate management, and countless other not strictly economic topics.

Tversky 10

Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 10